Firm and Provider News

OnSite E-Discovery has announced the launch of SecureDealRoom, a completely web-based secure data room service that allows law firms, bankers and businesses to quickly upload, share and collaborate on documents pertaining to litigation, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, equity investments, real estate, life sciences and many other forms of high-...

Nixon Peabody has announced that attorney Linn F. Freedman has received a prestigious Founder's Award from the Rhode Island Department of Health in recognition of her pioneering efforts to create a healthy environment in the state of Rhode Island.
At Nixon Peabody, Ms. Freedman focuses on health care law and litigation issues, advising healthcare...

Lawyers for Children America has named Jason Patrick Kairalla, a litigator in the Miami office of Jorden Burt LLP, as a recipient of the 2006 John Edward Smith Child Advocacy Award 2006. He received the award on May 19 at the 7th Annual John Edward Smith Child Advocacy Award Luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami.

Companies depend on general counsel for answers to help guide their organizations. Thomsen West has begun offering Counsel Monitor, a new strategic intelligence solution that will equip corporate legal departments with critical information to explain the business implications of legal trends.

Corporation Service Company, a privately-held provider of financial and legal services to corporations and law firms, has announced it has acquired New York-based Register.com's Corporate Services Division from Vector Capital, a privately held equity firm located in San Francisco, CA.

Barrasso Consulting LLC, a leading provider of business process outsourcing for litigation, received national certification as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women Presidents Educational Organization, a regional certifying partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP (K&LNG) partners Peter J. Kalis and Michael DeMarco have been listed by Los Angeles-based Lawdragon Magazine among the 500 Leading Litigators in America.
The listing is based on the nominations and evaluations of judges, plaintiffs, defense counsel, in-house lawyers, law firm managers, corporate...

Seven partners at Saul Ewing LLP have received the honor of being recognized for legal excellence by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, published by Who's Who Legal.
Attorneys in the Philadelphia office named to the prestigious list are Stephen S. Aichele and Frederick D. Strober for real estate; James M. Becker for litigation, and John F...

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, acting as lead counsel, recently filed voluntary chapter 11 petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on behalf of Smart Papers, LLC and certain of its affiliates.
Smart Papers and its affiliate PF Papers, LLC are market leading manufacturers, suppliers, and marketers of...

Dean T. Fournaris, a partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, has been named one of the best franchise attorneys in the United States and Canada and has received 'Legal Eagle 2006' nomination for the third consecutive year. Mr. Fournaris is one of the 101 lawyers selected for this year's 'Legal Eagle' list published in the April 2006 edition...

Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. has announced that Christopher Viceconte has joined the firm's Newark office in the Litigation Practice group.
Mr. Viceconte has extensive experience before the New Jersey and federal trial and appellate courts. His practice focuses on the defense of product manufacturers in design, manufacturing and warning defect...

With the recent launch of its new brand, SPI Technologies will be known simply as SPi. Supported by greater market recognition of a single brand, and based on its clients' needs for a single, multi-faceted outsourcing service provider, SPi seeks to leverage its multiple competencies and synergies to provide better value to its clients.

Goodwin Procter LLP has announced the opening of offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Goodwin Procter's California platform will feature two of its practices - real estate/real estate capital markets and complex litigation - and broaden the reach of its nationally recognized technology, life sciences, private equity and intellectual property practices...

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP (K&LNG) partners Peter J. Kalis and Michael DeMarco have been listed by Los Angeles-based Lawdragon Magazine among the 500 Leading Litigators in America.
The listing is based on the nominations and evaluations of judges, plaintiffs, defense counsel, in-house lawyers, law firm managers, corporate...

Seven partners at Saul Ewing LLP have received the honor of being recognized for legal excellence by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, published by Who's Who Legal.
Attorneys in the Philadelphia office named to the prestigious list are Stephen S. Aichele and Frederick D. Strober for real estate; James M. Becker for litigation, and John F...

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, acting as lead counsel, recently filed voluntary chapter 11 petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on behalf of Smart Papers, LLC and certain of its affiliates.
Smart Papers and its affiliate PF Papers, LLC are market leading manufacturers, suppliers, and marketers of...

Stradley Ronon partner Bennett G. Picker was recently presented with the 2nd Annual Grahovac Award for 'vision and leadership' at the Meritas Annual Meeting in Toronto attended by more than 400 guests from 48 countries. Mr. Picker is a co-founder of Meritas, an international alliance of over 5,700 attorneys in more than 200 cities in 63 countries providing...

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP partner Andrew S. Levine was recently honored at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Environmental Law Forum in recognition of his 'outstanding service to the Section's Pro Bono Program as Program Coordinator from 1999-2006.'
Mr. Levine helped start the Pro Bono Program for the Pennsylvania Bar Association's...

Dean T. Fournaris, a partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, has been named one of the best franchise attorneys in the United States and Canada and has received 'Legal Eagle 2006' nomination for the third consecutive year. Mr. Fournaris is one of the 101 lawyers selected for this year's 'Legal Eagle' list published in the April 2006 edition...

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP has been recognized by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company with a Meeting the Challenge Award for 2005. The firm was recognized for its sustained contributions to the DuPont Legal Model, its positive case results in various areas of litigation, its support of DuPont's diversity programs and its outstanding...

SPi Legal, an Austin-based worldwide leader in electronic discovery, document coding and litigation support services to law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies, has announced the promotion of Gene Eames to senior consultant in their Data Analytics Consulting group.

Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Quinn Abernathy has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the communications and information technology practice in Washington, DC.Ms. Abernathy will advise clients on a wide variety of policy and regulatory issues related to the telecommunications and media fields and will represent clients at both...

The law firms of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC have announced that they have merged, forming a single firm that will offer the premier practices and distinguished client service for which each firm is known.
The firm will operate as Kelley Drye & Warren LLP nationally and internationally. In the Washington, DC region, the...

The Cleveland-based law firm of Jones Day was the leader in mergers and acquisition deals by volume for the first quarter, according to figures compiled by Mergermarket, an independent mergers and acquisitions intelligence service.
During the first quarter, Jones Day had 33 deals totaling $19.1 billion. The firm rose from second place at the 2005 year-end...